README

This is version 2.6 of a collection of NIS client tools.
See the file COPYING for copying restrictions.
This package contains ypcat, ypmatch, ypset, ypwhich, yppasswd,
domainname, nisdomainname and ypdomainname. It is a complete
rewrite of the old yp-tools 1.4.x package. It fixes a lot of bugs
and problems with the old version.
This package should work with every Linux libc 5 and glibc 2,
and is a replacement of the yp-clients 2.2 and yp-tools 1.4.x
This version contains locale support. German locales are included.
You could get the latest version from:
http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nis/index.html
or from the main ftp server:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/yp-tools-2.6.tar.gz
You should use ypbind-mt 1.9 or greater.
Don't forget to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, or install the version
from the etc directory for NIS.
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>